re: FSB Claims US/GB/Ukraine Responsible For Attack

Something is fishy with all this. I don’t know if you have seen how they deal with these situations in the past. They usually shoot on spot (I agree with this philosophy 100%). Why didn’t they shoot them this time

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The Nuland/Budanov/Tajik/Crocus Connection

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For all the crybabies who hate Sy Hersh for wearing a tinfoil hat these days, he is parroting the IC party line on this.

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ISIS-K, along with similar terrorist groups operating out of neighboring Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, has been intensely targeted by American intelligence. One involved CIA operative told me that the agency has an asset that Russia lacked during its war in Afghanistan in the 1980s: a capability to monitor signal and communication intelligence from ISIS-K and related terrorist groups. The data is assumed to have come via American gear that was installed on a mountain range in Pakistan.

The now retired agent said that he and others in the intelligence community “truly believe that there is a duty” to warn other nations—even Russia—of impending terrorist attacks. He also recalled the brutality of the extremist groups in the region who often did not kill their enemies immediately but relished putting them through a slow death. “They liked to chop up people, limb by limb, and let them bleed out until they died,” he said. Russians, he told me, are an especially prized target.

Another involved official, with many years of experience, explained that “the number one priority of the American community is tracking all of these ISIS groups—both the leaders and the hit squads. We have superb international cooperation in the effort and openly share data with those countries that are vulnerable, including both Russia and Ukraine. When we have the opportunity—that is, military access—we take them out with our own assets, often without publicity, except when the Delta Force and SEALs beat their chests in competition.” (At this point, he assured me that the various commanders of the involved special forces units put an end to “that nonsense.”)

The official explained that when there is immediate intelligence on a planned terrorist attack and no American forces available, “we alert the vulnerable foreign target with what we know.” The official added that “had ISIS relocated to Ukraine, we would have known it and removed them. They did not do so, and so we did not.” He went on: “For many organizational and cultural reasons Russia simply lacks the capability to do what we can do in this shadow world. We gave them a timely and accurate heads-up, but they were still vulnerable and paid a grisly price.

“The threat to Russia from the Muslim extremists existed long before the USSR collapsed. The Chechnya massacre”—in 1999 Putin ordered the destruction of Grozny, the Chechen capital—“and trouble in Georgia”—two provinces there vainly sought to break away from Russian control in 2008—“are examples of a struggle that will continue. It has nothing to do with Ukraine except that [Putin’s] focus on Ukraine” led him to make a false accusation—a reference to Putin’s continued insistence that Ukraine was involved in ISIS-K’s massacre at the concert.

The prophetic alert released by the US Embassy in Moscow on March 7 explained that the embassy “is monitoring reports that extremists have imminent plans to target large gatherings in Moscow, to include concerts, and U.S. citizens should be advised to avoid large gatherings in the next 48 hours.”

By any standard, the American intelligence was riveting. President Putin chose to ignore the warnings, and in its aftermath he has fixated on what he apparently and wrongly believes was an attack that in some way had been orchestrated or known in advance by the Ukrainian government.

His denial of the reality led him, as an essay in Politico put it, to assume that his relationship with Hamas and stance on Israel’s war in Gaza meant that Russia would not be an ISIS target. He went so far as to ask rhetorically: “Are radical and even terrorist Islamic organizations really interested in striking Russia, which today stands for a fair solution to the escalating Middle East conflict?”

The tragic reality, as the Russian leader continues to insist on Ukraine’s involvement, is that he and his cowed bureaucracy failed his people and their children. In many nations, such a catastrophic mistake would have political consequences.

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Just because the US Govt and CIA has been funneling drugs, munitions, and money to cartels and Muslim extremist groups and dictators for 70 years including many false flag operations like 9/11 and blowing up Russian pipelines doesn’t mean we did this particular thing this time.

It is neither Ukraine's nor America's style, but I wouldn't put it past Putin to gin up some emotional and political currency. He's done that before.

FSB?

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The US is going to pay a bunch of amateurs $5k to kill Russian civilians, and likely get caught? And give up the US? Lol.

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Why not? Many Americans still believe the Russians hacked the 2016 pres election, Trump is a Russian asset, covid vaccine prevents the spread of covid, the last election was the most secure in history.
With the Western press fronting for them, they can get away with anything.

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DUTY TO WARN

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Well bless his heart. “Duty” entails a moral obligation.

You can’t ascribe such moral rectitudes to a wholly nihilistic entity like our nation’s national security apparatus. I understand flattering his “sauces” to remain on the gravy train but I’m a little surprised Hersh would cheapen himself in such a manner by regurgitating such mawkish pablum.

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One involved CIA operative told me that the agency has an asset that Russia lacked during its war in Afghanistan in the 1980s: a capability to monitor signal and communication intelligence from ISIS-K and related terrorist groups.

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You don’t say?